Making Quotes

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.